A Method Towards the Fully Automatic Merging of Lexical Resources

Bel Rafecas, Núria; Padró, Muntsa; Necşulescu, Silvia

A Method Towards the Fully Automatic Merging of Lexical Resources

Citation

Bel N, Padró M, Necsulescu S. A Method Towards the Fully Automatic Merging of Lexical Resources. In: Proceedings of Workshop on Language Resources, Technology and Services in the Sharing Paradigm; 2011 Nov 12; Chiang Mai, Thailand. Chiang Mai(Thailand): ACL; 2011. p. 8-15.

Abstract

Lexical Resources are a critical component for Natural Language Processing applications. However, the high cost of comparing and merging different resources has been a bottleneck to obtain richer resources and a broader range of potential uses for a significant number of languages. With the objective of reducing cost by eliminating human intervention, we present a new method towards the automatic merging of resources. This method includes both, the automatic mapping of resources involved to a common format and merging them, once in this format. This paper presents how we have addressed the merging of two verb subcategorization frame lexica for Spanish, but our method will be extended to cover other types of Lexical Resources. The achieved results, that almost replicate human work, demonstrate the feasibility of the approach.